We're talking about apples and orangutans on here. folk music and commercially viable folk music. To me, they're completely different. I don't care if there's never another Kingston Trio, or Peter., Paul, and Marcy. They too have their value. I'm talking about folk music... music made by folks like you and me. I'll keep writing songs, singing old songs and playing music because I love doing it, and there will always be some people who want to hear it. This discussion is also not about ME. It's about kids that are in their teens and early to mid twenties who may never hear it; not because it doesn't make the top 40, but because they're not aware of it. There will always be folk societies and small venues where it will be played, and folks getting together and playing it for the shear pleasure of playing it. I hope that people hear Charlie Poole's and Mississippi John Hurt's music still gets played. If mine doesn't is neither here nor there. If a song or two is remembered and kept alive, that would be nice. I just hope there are enough of us committed so that people hear the old master's music.. played by some kid not yet born, or on a CD when CDs are in the same category as Edison cylinders. It's my hope, because I think the old music is a treasure.